11 JUNE 1942, page 4

Arnold Of Rugby Has Come To Be Rather A Legendary

figure, where he is remembered, in this the centenary of his death, it generally as a schoolmaster and not as a historian, but his Hist of Rome was important, and he was Regius......

• * * * There Are Some Things In This

war which, I think it may be claimed, redound to the credit of journalists. A few hours after these words appear—just too late for any specific reference or comment in this......

Viscount Swinton's Appointment To West Africa As Minister...

is unexpected, but I shall be surprised if it does not turn out well. Lord Swinton (who began life under the name of Lloyd- Graeme and subsequently became Cunliffe-Lister) has......

The Brains Trust, I Believe, Is About To Take A

holiday. A proper step, for the faculties of some of the members certainly n refreshing. To hear every member on Tuesday declaring -him incapable of telling a colonel—the......

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I am tempted to write " What ' Janus' says today . . .", for I did in fact say months ago that Mr. Bruce should be put into the War Cabinet. Now he is there, and the Cabinet......

A Spectator's Notebook I N All The Controversy About This...

lack of dive-bombers one rather salient name seems, whether by accident or design, to have escaped all mention. On Wednesday Sir Archibald Sinclair said in Parliament, as he had......

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We are familiar enough with wage-anomalies in this war, b mainly the comparison is between miners and munition-worke or munition-workers and soldiers. What is far too rarely......

Post-war Germany

G ERMANY has not yet been defeated, but every criterion applicable makes it clear already that Germany cannot win. k is therefore only a matter of time before the question of......